- #1 Doodle Factory
96% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #2 Big Pharma
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,921 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
Why similar: Medical Sim 44.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7%, Strategy 5.5%
- #3 Beltex
96% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Idler 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #4 Islandustry
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 42%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 4.8%
- #6 Builderment
94% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #7 Potion Pipeline
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #8 Beltmatic
92% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Idler 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #9 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #10 MoteMancer
91% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 6.5%
- #11 Nightwater
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Idler 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #12 Drinks Company Tycoon
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fatanos
Windows
Begin your own company story. Combine ingredients and categories to create your product. Vary the price and the taste. Build your image. Advance the technology. Adjust to market and customer needs, but dont forget about rivals. All of this and even more is waiting for you in Drinks Company Tycoon.
Why similar: Medical Sim 32.2% ★, Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #13 Modulus: Factory Automation
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, City Builder 10.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #14 Core Splitter
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Splitter Studio
Windows
Automate your factory to fuel a planet-splitting laser drill. Mass-produce mechanized combat units, deploy them in tactical auto-battles to conquer enemy outposts, and route their resources back to your expanding mega-factory. Grow your army and destroy the Runaway Artificial Superintelligence (RAS)
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Idler 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, City Builder 10.9%
- #15 Pistonica
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #16 Incremental Factory
86% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Idler 14.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 9.5%
- #17 SkyRig
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Science 11.4% ★, Resource Management 8%
- #18 Automation Station
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Sandbox 16.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #19 Factory Magnate
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 8%
- #20 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 14.5%, Idler 9.5%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #21 Astral Bloom
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Idler 16.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8%
- #22 Node Math
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Idler 14.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #23 Kardashev
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 44.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 15%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%
- #24 shapez
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 7%
- #25 Industry Idle
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Idler 12.1%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #26 Proto Garden
80% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, City Builder 8.5%, Resource Management 8%
- #27 Dyson Sphere Program
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, City Builder 7.8%
- #28 Substructure
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #29 Lichworks
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rune Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #30 Capybara Achievement Clicker
76% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: JosephPub: WeirdCanyon
Windows
Capybara Achievement Clicker is a simple incremental and idle game. It features over a hundred easy-to-acquire achievements and a Capybara to click on.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Sandbox 17.9%, Idler 17.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Relaxing 7%
- #31 Jigsaw Industry
76% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.6%
- #32 Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 323 reviews2019
Dev: Jarrod Brown
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
Why similar: Medical Sim 37.9% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #33 Automation Empire
78% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #34 Biofactory
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 6.9%
- #35 Mito
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #36 Two Point Hospital
77% matchVery Positive92% of 34,380 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Medical Sim 70.5% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 7.6%, Building 4.9%, Strategy 4.3%
- #37 Village Tale
73% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Idler 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #38 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Idler 18.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #39 Factories in Factories in Factories
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abe Wits
Windows · Linux
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #40 Captain of Industry
73% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, City Builder 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #41 TowerLine
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.8%
- #42 Junk Rise
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bario
Windows
Build your recycling empire from junk! Collect, process, and craft valuable products in a chill, satisfying simulator where garbage becomes gold ♻️ .
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Relaxing 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, City Builder 11.5%
- #43 Outer Factory
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 17.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #44 Idle interstellar Factory 2
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 48.9%, Sandbox 22.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Idler 6.4%
- #45 Star Birds
68% matchVery Positive93% of 2,628 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Science 8.8% ★, City Builder 8.6%
- #46 Assemble Ensemble
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Jorin SalewskiPub: Die Noten
Windows
Assemble Ensemble is a music-themed factory-building game, that offers a variety of fun melodies, for you to recreate by cleverly placing machines and conveyors!
Why similar: Automation 40.9%, Sandbox 25.9%, Strategy 21.6%, Relaxing 9.1%, Colorful 2.5%
- #47 Dr Greenstuff
73% matchVery Positive87% of 148 reviews2018
Dev: Black DiskettePub: Black Diskette Studio
Windows
Discover the life of Dr Greenstuff, grow marijuana, coca, make meth', drugs and more to keep your legal/illegal business running.
Why similar: Medical Sim 79.6% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #48 Fable Hospital
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: AMGames TC
Windows
Fable Hospital is a medieval hospital management simulator with a touch of fantasy and humor. Cure hilarious diseases, manage an eccentric team, and gather resources in a world full of satire and fun.
Why similar: Medical Sim 53.9% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 8.5%, Management 5.1%
- #49 Resources Assemble!
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Idler 19%, Strategy 11.9%, Relaxing 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #50 Poop Right Now
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 41.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 7.5%
- #51 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Idler 20.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Relaxing 9.3%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #52 Cartefact
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 51.1%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Exploration 2.8%
- #53 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
70% matchMixed61% of 179 reviews2021
Dev: Abylight StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Why similar: Medical Sim 35.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #54 Manaftory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 53.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%
- #55 Deep Space Directive
67% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Hex Grid 8% ★
- #56 ReFactory
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Base Building 21%, Strategy 15.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, City Builder 10.3%
- #57 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #58 Mindustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 38.5%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #59 Chronominion Idler
65% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Indie Addict Game Studio
Windows
Manage your party, develop skills, and shape the fate of a living world in this strategy-driven RPG.
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Idler 22.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Base Building 6.8%